Burkina Faso: The Norbert Zongo Press Centre and the Forum of African Publishers

Gabon: Gabonactu.com

Chad: The weekly Le Temps

Cote d’Ivoire : L’Inter

“This is just the start,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “I am confident that other media will join us in supporting Ruvakuki. The campaign must keep growing.”

Reporters Without Borders urges all news media and all organizations and institutions involved in news and information to contact its Africa Desk if they want to support Ruvakuki and this petition.

A reporter for Radio France Internationale’s Swahili service and for the Burundian radio station Bonesha FM, Ruvakuki was given a three-year jail sentence on appeal on 8 January on a charge of “participating in an association formed for the purpose of attacking persons and property.”